"Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive."

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Source : "The Demise of a Dream". Adil Saturday Zareef, The Daily Times, January 28, 2006.

Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan

#Real Quotes #Hero Quotes #Alive Quotes

“As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]”
“When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'”
“Our world is defined by the pace of change. We can all change the world.”
“If your parent is deployed and you are that young, you spend the whole time wondering where they are and waiting for them to come home. As time passes and the absence is longer and longer, you become more and more concerned - but you don't really have the words to express your concern. There's only this continued absence.”
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”
“One reason I like to talk about Heaven, think about Heaven and read about Heaven is because, after all, that's where we're going to spend Eternity, so it's a pretty important place and we ought to be pretty interested, don't you think? It's our Eternal Home, the place Jesus has gone to prepare for us forever, so we certainly ought to be interested in it and want to know what it's like and what we're going to be like when we get there!”
“When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.”

Source : 'Le Cid' (1637) act 2, sc. 2
“The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.”

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